Socio Religious And Cultural Reforms

Question 1

Credit for abolition of sati goes to?

Answer 1

Raja ram mohan roy

Question 2

Credit of widow remarriage act goes to ?

Answer 2

Ishwar chandra vidyasagar

Question 3

Founder of widow remarriage association?

Answer 3

Vishnu shastri pandit in 1850s

Question 4

Satya prakash in gujarati was started by and for?

Answer 4

Karsondas mulji..to advocate for widow remarriage

Question 5

DK karve and veerasalingam puntulu names are heard in which category?

Answer 5

Social reforms.. widow remarriage

Question 6

Credit for age of consent act that restricted child marriage goes to?

Answer 6

BM maldhari

Question 7

Indian women’s university founded in 1916 by?

Answer 7

DK karve

Question 8

Founder and year of bharat stree mahamandal?

Answer 8

1910 - sarla devi chaudharani - allahabad

Question 9

Which was the women’s branch of national social conference and who founded it?

Answer 9

Ladies social conference (aka bharat mahila parishad) founded by ramabai ranade in 1904 at bombay

Question 10

Arya mahila samaj founder?

Answer 10

Pandita ramabai saraswati

Question 11

Indian branch of international council of women?

Answer 11

National conucil of women in india - 1925 - Mehribai Tata

Question 12

All india women’s conference founded by?

Answer 12

Margaret counsins - 1927 - first egalitarian approach to women’s organisations. Preiou ones were mostly for high class and caste women

Question 13

Name some important founding members of all india women’s conference

Answer 13

Maharani chimnabai gaekwad
Sarojini naidu
Kamla devi chattopadhyay
Ladi dorab tata

Question 14

All india depressed clsses association was founded by ambedkar.. true or false?

Answer 14

FALSE

Question 15

Bahishkrit hitkarni sabha was founded in 1924 by?

Answer 15

Ambedkar

Question 16

Sambad kaumudi newspaper was founded by?

Answer 16

RRR

Question 17

In which year RRR founded the brahmo sabha - predecessor of brahmo samaj?

Answer 17

1828

Question 18

Who was a strong opposer of RRR and which body did he form?

Answer 18

Radhakant deb - dharma sabha

Question 19

Founders of hindu college in 1917 at calcutta?

Answer 19

RRR
David hare
Alexander duff
Radhakant deb
Baidyanath mukhopadhyay
Rasamay dutt

Question 20

Girls were allowed in hindu college from the beginning. True or false?

Answer 20

False. Allowed to join in 1944

Question 21

The senior wing was which college was renamed as presidency college in 1855?

Answer 21

Hindu college, calcutta

Question 22

Founder of tattvabodhini sabha?

Answer 22

Debendranath tagore

Question 23

Brahmo samaj of india was founded by?

Answer 23

Keshab chandra sen in 1866

Question 24

Founders of sadharan brahmo samaj?

Answer 24

Ananda mohan bose, shibchandra deb and umesh chandra datta in 1878 after getting disgusted by keshab chandra sen

Question 25

Prartha samaj in bombay founder?

Answer 25

Atmaram pandurang in 1867

Question 26

What was the work of paramhansa sabha that mahadeo govind ranade was once part of?

Answer 26

Emphasis on monotheism Focused of socia lreforms rather than religion Predecessor of prarthna sabha

Question 27

Widow remarriage movement and widows home association was founded by?

Answer 27

Ranade with dhondo keshav karve

Question 28

Leader of young bengal movement?

Answer 28

Henry vivian derozio

Question 29

Who opened The sanskrit college to non brahmins on becoming its principal in 1850?

Answer 29

Ishwar chandra vidyasagar

Question 30

As a secretary of bethune school, ishwar chandra was a pioneer of higher education for women. True or false?

Answer 30

True

Question 31

Who started the newspaper darpan in 1832 and was also called as the father of marathi journalism?

Answer 31

Balshastri jambhekar

Question 32

Founders of paramhansa sabha/mandali?

Answer 32

Dadoba pandurang, mehtaji durgaram and others

Question 33

Paramhansa mandali was a hindu revivalist movement. True or false?

Answer 33

False. It was a reforming movement - monotheism - love, morals - freedom of thought

Question 34

Who coined the term dalit?

Answer 34

Jyotirao phule

Question 35

Sarvajanik satyadharm and gulam giri were written by?

Answer 35

Jyotiba phule

Question 36

Founder of newspaper deenbandhu?

Answer 36

Jyotiba phule

Question 37

This reformer was given the title of mahatma by vithalrao krishna vandekar. He used the symbol of raja bali as opposed to ram. He was against sanskritic hinduism. Who was he?

Answer 37

Jyotiba phule

Question 38

satyashodhak samaj foudner and objectives?

Answer 38

Jyotiba phule Social service, education of women and backward classes

Question 39

A former judge under british raj, he wrote the weekly prabhakar under the pen name of lokahitawadi. Who is he?

Answer 39

Gopalhari deshmukh

Question 40

Weekly hitechchu was started by?

Answer 40

Gopalhari deshmukh lokahitawadi

Question 41

Principal of fergusson college, first editor of kesari paper and founder of periodical called sudharak. Who is he?

Answer 41

Gopal ganesh agarkar

Question 42

Founders of fergusson college?

Answer 42

1895 Tilak Shivram apte Gopal ganesh agarkar Vishnushastri chiplunkar Sir james fergusson

Question 43

Founder and first president of AITUC?

Answer 43

Founder - NM joshi First president - Lala lajpat rai

Question 44

Social service league in bombay was foudned by?

Answer 44

NM joshi